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Comment: Re:GPS reference system (Score 3, Interesting) 475

by Maximum Prophet (#43730847) Attached to: Global Warming Shifts the Earth's Poles
If you had a run of the mill GPS system, and you drove your car very, very, far North, eventually you'd lose signal.

What I imagine is going on here, is that there is a ring of base stations watching the GPS satellites around each pole. If you know the base stations haven't moved w.r.t. the pole, then you can calculate where the center of spin is, thus where the pole is.

Comment: Re:Mac OS X (Score 1) 435

by Maximum Prophet (#43652977) Attached to: It's 2013, and Windows Activation Is Still Frustrating
My mom, also a grandmother, still uses an OS9 machine next to but not networked into her OS X laptop.

I've been stockpiling parts so I should be able to keep it running for at least 20 more years. (B.t.w. I have 33 year old arcade machines that are still running fine)

Sometimes there's no reason to upgrade.

Comment: Re:Laptop batteries, anyone? (Score 4, Interesting) 157

by Maximum Prophet (#43453943) Attached to: Memory Effect Discovered In Lithium-Ion Batteries
With any battery technology, it's almost never the "Memory Effect", but simple overcharging. If your laptop batteries are always hot just sitting there when the laptop is plugged into the mains, they won't last as long as ones that are properly charged and left alone until they are needed for discharge. With cheap cordless drills and other tools, simple putting a timer on the charger will greatly increase the number of cycles you can get out of the batteries.

Comment: Re:Academic research (Score 1) 167

... Naturally then the company needs to dump all the profitable stuff and focus on what they're bad at.

Seriously why do companies do that?

We a company is in trouble it needs to cut costs and sell assets. You can sell off your crap, but nobody wants to pay much money for crap, so you'd go under anyway. The only thing that's going to make enough money to keep you afloat, is to sell your "seed corn". So you sell your most valuable assets, keep the crap and hope that someone left can spin that crap into gold.

Yes, 99 times out of 100, you are going under anyway, but if every other way has 100% chance of failure, it's time to throw the Hail Mary pass and hope for the best.

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